Nsaio6. New Jewellery from Idar-Oberstein
Published: 12.12.2016
Theo Smeets
Ute Eitzenhöfer
- Editor:
- Campus Idar-Oberstein Trier University of Applied Sciences
- Text by:
- Ute Eitzenhöfer, Theo Smeets, Eva-Maria Kollischan, Wilhelm Lindemann, Julia Wild, Marjan Unger
- Edited by:
- Arnoldsche Art Publishers
- Edited at:
- Stuttgart
- Edited on:
- 2016
- Technical data:
- Softcover. 368 pp., 17.5 x 24.5 cm, 266 ills. in colour and 22 in b/w
- ISBN / ISSN:
- 978-3-89790-473-6
- Price:
- from 34 €
- Order:
- Amazon
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- 20% Discount for Klimt02 members

To mark the exhibition in the Stadtmusem Simeonstift in Trier on thirty years of the Gemstone and Jewellery Department, the publication shows an exciting selection of works from the last ten years.
Beginning with the renaissance of gemstones in jewellery design since the 1970s, Ute Eitzenhöfer, Theo Smeets, Lothar Brügel (ret. 2014) and Eva-Maria Kollischan (since 2014) successfully established the Hochschule Trier in Idar-Oberstein as a creative European jewellery centre. Works in creative design and photography accompany diverse approaches that exemplify the contemporary use of a reputedly ‘outmoded’ raw material.
In exploring the aesthetic characteristics of the material and the experimental confrontation with its physical qualities, the gemstone’s potential for design comes entirely into its own. Within current discourse it comments ironically, on the one hand, on the unilateral societal ascription as a luxury item; on the other, it functions as a charming and noble object of nature.
Texts in English and German.
In exploring the aesthetic characteristics of the material and the experimental confrontation with its physical qualities, the gemstone’s potential for design comes entirely into its own. Within current discourse it comments ironically, on the one hand, on the unilateral societal ascription as a luxury item; on the other, it functions as a charming and noble object of nature.
Texts in English and German.
Theo Smeets
Ute Eitzenhöfer
- Editor:
- Campus Idar-Oberstein Trier University of Applied Sciences
- Text by:
- Ute Eitzenhöfer, Theo Smeets, Eva-Maria Kollischan, Wilhelm Lindemann, Julia Wild, Marjan Unger
- Edited by:
- Arnoldsche Art Publishers
- Edited at:
- Stuttgart
- Edited on:
- 2016
- Technical data:
- Softcover. 368 pp., 17.5 x 24.5 cm, 266 ills. in colour and 22 in b/w
- ISBN / ISSN:
- 978-3-89790-473-6
- Price:
- from 34 €
- Order:
- Amazon
- Order:
- 20% Discount for Klimt02 members
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